A month after her death Cardinal Newman had written: [Footnote: _Letters of John Henry Newman_, Anne Mozley.] "Of late years my mother has much misunderstood my religious views, and considered she differed from me;

She draws a parallel between St Thomas More's Christian humanism and his defence of the Papacy with what she describes as Newman's Christian humanism, which came with a love of beauty, a revival of patristic thought, scholarly thought about conscience.